We regret to note the death of Mr. W. Bridges
Adams, owner of the Fairfield Railway Carriage Works, and in the earlier days of this journal a constant contributor to its columns. To very great powers of invention he added a lucidity of statement extremely rare among engineers, and great wealth of fancy. He had a curious pleasure in engineering prophecies, and we have often fancied, in reading his writings, through which only we knew him, that the carriage-builder had, in a former state of existence, written the " Polyolbion," and was always trying to recover his lost power. His principal patents were connected with railway carriages, but he had " ideas," often of the most original and practical kind, upon every branch of mechanics, architecture, and engineering, and he could describe them with a force for which most professional litterateurs would give their ears.
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